Alecta allocates 100 million dollars to invest in the NN-FMO Emerging Markets Loan fund. To Alecta, this investment presents an attractive opportunity to finance sustainable development projects while generating stable returns to our beneficiaries. As the Agenda 2030 and the […]
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How does a fifth-generation member of one of Europe’s most notable family businesses continue its long tradition of social consciousness? By launching a second career as an impact investing pioneer. Daniel Bardsley reports. Many people, after two or three decades […]
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De NWB Bank heeft voor de tweede keer dit jaar een Affordable Housing Bond (social bond) uitgegeven. Dit keer gaat het om een 30 jaars-benchmark Housing Bond ter grootte van € 600 miljoen. Niet eerder gaf de NWB Bank een […]
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One of the great challenges of impact investing is knowing how much impact reporting to require from the ventures you invest in, remembering that startups face plenty of challenges without layering on needless reporting. On the other hand, impact investors want […]
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De vraag naar de Rabo Impactlening blijft onverminderd hoog. Daardoor krijgt de lening met rentekorting voor bedrijven met een positieve impact wederom een vervolg. De Rabobank heeft gelden van de Europese Investeringsbank (EIB) beschikbaar gekregen voor een derde tranche van […]
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ABN AMRO gaat samenwerken met Root Capital, een Amerikaanse impact investor in de agri-sector. Vanuit de samenwerking worden ‘impact’ leningen verstrekt aan kleine boerenbedrijven. ABN AMRO participeert sinds vorige maand in leningen aan koffie-coöperaties in Latijns-Amerika. Hiermee worden zo’n 4.000 […]
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Toniic Institute, the global action community for impact investors, today released T100: Insights from Impact Advisors and Consultants 2017, at the Berlin Green Investment Summit. This is the second report in the T100 Research Project, a longitudinal study of 100% […]
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Social investor and worldwide cooperative Oikocredit funded inclusive finance organisations reaching 40 million people last year, 84 per cent of which were women. The results, released today, are part of a suite of outcomes indicators published in Oikocredit’s latest Social […]
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Triodos Investment Management heeft twee online Impact Reports gepubliceerd waarin zij reflecteert op haar rol en activiteiten binnen twee sectoren: Inclusive Finance (microfinanciering) en de Europese markt voor duurzame voeding en consumptiegoederen. De Impact Rapporten presenteren de resultaten over 2016 […]
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A discussion paper from Oxfam and Sumerian Partners questions some of the assumptions around impact investment and highlights the experience of enterprises contributing to poverty reduction so that they might be better served by the field. It argues that the […]
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ASADRA, a global marketplace for conscious fashion, today announced a partnership with Voyage, a venture catalyst firm, as the start-up seeks to raise further investment to fund its ‘go to market’ strategy. Aimed at customers who value products with purpose, […]
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Today’s landscape of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds is the result of more than thirty years of investment innovation. In the main, investors have tried to define and limit the ‘inputs’ into an investment process; first through ethical screens, […]
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